Crisis in the supply of care homes

摘要

Care homes are a neglected area of public policy that we have to get right. Pressure on care home places is increasing, alongside huge recruitment and funding problems. Last year Oxford Brookes University's Institute of Public Care (IPC) studied data from the Care Quality Commission and found that, from April 2012 to April 2017, the number of care homes in England fell by 8%, from 17801 to 16392.